Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears baggy red pantaloons and a white scarf. He wears his golden hair up. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 3000 gp. Obsidian (6 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. His ears are large.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 pp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has wavy silver hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Heian lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black pearl (1400 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Citrine (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.